IEEE Spectrum published a ranking of the most popular programming
languages. Computational journalist Nick Diakopoulos wrote the
article. While it may surprise some, I wasn’t
surprised to find SQL in the top ten.

Nick weighted and combined 12 metrics from 10
sources (including IEEE Xplore, Google, and GitHub) to rank the
most popular programming languages.

Leo Polovets of Susa Ventures publishes an excellent blog called
Coding VC. There you can find some excellent posts, such as
pitches by analogy, and an algorithm for seed round valuations
and analyzing product hunt data. He recently wrote a blog post
about a topic near and dear to my heart, Which Technologies do
Startups […]

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On Thursday 12th September I co-presented a
webinar on how MySQL Cluster delivers the key benefits of NoSQL
Data Stores without having to give up the features that people
rely on from relational databases (consistency, SQL etc.). There
was a particular focus on how to use the new node.js JavaScript
API which was recently released as part of MySQL Cluster 7.3. If
you weren’t able …

Just a quick note to say that the site has been updated to a new
theme which is based on the super awesome Twitter
Bootstrap UI framework. To make life easier, since this site
is also using WordPress at the core, I’ve made use of the
WordPress
Bootstrap plugin which allows for very simple integration.
However, that wasn’t enough because the Bootstrap plugin comes
with rather basic and boring generic styles; so I added the
plugin for …

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